I'm looking to start my own server, and was going to dive into YouTube tutorials. Do you have any recommendations to offer?

Service wise, I wanted to start with a pi hole, and maybe a music server or something to store pictures from my phone. Maybe host my own ss14 server too!

Hardware wise, i was going to start with a raspberry pi (of some sort?)

Any tips, references, or suggestions are greatly appreciated ❤️

As I understand things, or least how I've understood them over the last year or so, NVIDIA GPUs are comparatively less-supported on Linux than AMD ones. Is this still the case, and if so, is there hope for near-future improvements in this department? Has NVIDIA made any moves that indicates they're gonna try to make things better in terms of drivers? And out of curiosity, what is it that AMD has done that NVIDIA hasn't? Is it really just down to the drivers?

On a similar topic, how is HDR support on Linux? I've read that Wayland has support for this (I sound like I know what Wayland is, but I really don't) but that streaming services and DRM-protected content won't work with HDR. I personally don't care about the streaming side of it, I'm more concerned about gaming and watching local video files or 4K Blu-ray discs (I use a tool to strip out the DRM from such discs on-the-fly, so no worries there).

So, in sum (and to make it easier to reply!):

1. Is NVIDIA still lagging behind AMD in terms of GPU support on Linux?
2. Why is (or was) AMD better-supported?
3. How is the current HDR implementation? Particularly as it relates to gaming and watching videos/discs locally.

Thank you kindly!

Looking up the search bar gives too many choices, considering the fact that I am a complete beginner. I need to narrow down on what I am using vs code for. I shall be working with git. So the tutorial ought to start right from beginners and flow towards using git.

@bleeptrack@vis.social

I wish to switch over to Linux, but the only machine l have at my disposal is my brother's windows 10 laptop. Does QEMU help me create a virtual Linux system on this machine ?

I run a pihole and use ublock origin in my browser so this normally doesn't come up. But I'll be traveling for about a week and would like to use Adguard (which I pay for) on my bazzite system. I tried following the instructions on adguard's website but when I run the command in terminal I get a message saying the bash command is not found. I assume this is because generally bazzite doesn't run bash commands.

I'd like a detailed explanation of how to get this running if anyone has it, or a guide I can follow.

Thank you in advance.

@linux4noobs@lemmy.world @linux4noobs@programming.dev @casualconversation can someone please suggest me a way out ??

Basically, l'm installing virtual box on a windows 10 laptop. Here, l'm going to try out MX Linux fluxbox and tinker with linux in a sandboxed environment, so that my experiments don't harm the main system.

In the screenshot, you can see where l got stuck. In the storage part, it says that the controller ide optical drive is empty. The controller sata MX fluxbox.vdi is inaccessible.

@linux4noobs what is systemd ??

There's a lot I don't understand about both docker and git, so my question and description of the problem may not be as detailed as some would like.

I've set up a container, Otter wiki, via the docker compose file offered in the docs. This sets up a persistent volume outside the container where the wiki config and git repo containing the wiki's pages live. Everything works fine. I can go to the site and everything works. But I want to add external files to the repo. When I try to do it, it throws an error saying I need to enter my email and user name. I do this, and it still says permission denied.

I assume the instance of git that's tracking the repo lives inside the docker container, but the repo itself lives outside the container. How do I add and commit files?

CLARIFYING EDIT:

The repo I'm trying to use isn't for Otter's source code. Otter uses git as the revision tracking system component common to most wikis. That is, the wiki itself is a git repo filled with markdown files. In order to add a bunch of existing markdown files to the wiki, I have to tell git to track them, but this is a persistent volume outside the container, so the instance of git I'm using is on the host, but the instance of git that's tracking the files is in the container.

Hi guys, been having a problem for a week now in fedora 43.

After half an hour of light use, my kde keyboard starts crashing at regular intervals, the taskbar is unresponsive, and the shutdown greeter will crash if i try to restart or shut down. I have to power cycle the system to turn it off, not the best.

Looking for anyone also experiencing the problem has not yielded any hits, so I'm posting here 😅

Thus far i have tried: -Restarting -Disabling Firefox video decoding (closest fix i could find in searches) -Rolling back to my previous Friday backups

The issue persists 😓

I don't know enough about Linux to troubleshoot the problem effectively 😅

Greetings Lemmings,

I am not sure when touchscreen/tablet mode stuff was enhanced with KDE, I am guessing somewhere between 6.4.x and 6.6.x but I am quite pleased with this.

I couldn't find a good touchscreen compatible keyboard for the random times I used my Lenovo Yoga in touch mode, but somewhere along the way KDE was updated with some enhancements to touch mode.

I didn't know it until today that screen rotation was not an issue for my tablet mode either. I discovered it completely by accident.

Prior to this I had written a script I mapped to a hotkey to rotate the screen before switching to tablet mode.

This was such a wonderful surprise, so for anyone else looking to use KDE with their touch compatible devices I highly suggest trying it again.

The number of issues I've been having with Bazzite, due to its immutability and my lack of experience, has finally reached the point that I'm no longer willing to deal with.

But I like basically everything about Bazzite, aside from its immutability, and I'd like to preserve as much of it as possible. In particular, I like KDE/Plasma (right?) way more than I liked Cinnamon on Mint, and the whole reason I gave Bazzite a try over Mint was that it supposedly was better for NVidia gaming. Which has absolutely been true, all the minor performance issues I was having on Mint vanished under Bazzite.

So, thoughts and recommendations? Thanks in advance.

Since I'm sure some nerds like me will want to know WHAT issues I've been having, the most significant ones would be....

• I've hit a dead-end with trying to setup multiple audio sinks, so I can do what's been standard behavior in Windows for decades and use both my speakers and headset separately, at the same time, per-application. There's basically only ONE source of info on how to do this, and it's written for mutable distros, as it apparently involves doing some firmware config mods or something.

• I've had quite a lot of issues with getting JetBrains Rider and the .NET SDK to work properly with each other, ranging from the inability to get .NET 10 installed, since Rider's flatpak only includes up to .NET 8, and there IS no flatpak for the .NET SDK itself, to getting .NET CLI tools to run properly from Rider, due to the sandboxing.

• I was looking to install GameMaker to continue a little side project I started on Mint, and it's not available on flatpak, nor can I find any wisdom on how I might work around that fact.

I went to install some software today (Gradia) which is only available via Flathub apparently, the install size is larger than my distro which feels like a bit much for a screenshot tool. What's the deal with the massive size of Flatpaks and is it really worth all the extra space? 4GB per application?

I have been able to see online that the problem I am having is a known one where the Firefox flatpak needs version 23.06 ffmpeg-full as a dependency.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this working and as a result Firefox audio stutters significantly on every website no matter what settings I change or what extensions I turn on and off.

I at first assumed this was a problem with my extensions and went through a pretty hefty troubleshooting session that got me pretty much nowhere.

I have attempted to install the proper codecs via the terminal and the system says those codecs are already installed.

I'm at a loss here. If anyone knows an answer or at least an avenue to help me get this solved, I'm all ears.

Device: ROG Ally X OS: Bazzite/Fedora updated fully to the most recent update released.

How does turbowarp desktop help in handling scratch ?

Is there any tutorial video showing how to set evilwm as a proper desktop environment ??

Just installed CachyOS and the drive I used alongside system drive for media\archive storage can't get mounted anymore. It's internal HDD and uses NTFS, I created it on Windows 10 years ago and used all this time from under Mint (no dualboot, only Mint). I did a regular reboot before OS switch and didn't even mount it this time.

While trying to access said drive, dolphin prints that:

An error occurred while accessing 'drive', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /run/media/user/drive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

Where can I start my fixing journey? Where I can look for precise reason it fails?

All components are 5-10 years old if it matters. The other HDD that I formatted under Mint works just fine. It's probably a CachyOS vs NTFS problem.

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I succeed at force-mounting it via ntfs 3g, but it seems it really was a problem with a bad block or something originating from windows. Checks were passed with 0 errors, so I assume it's a little funni M$ gave me with a divorce letter.

Instead of finding a way to force-mount it every time, I tried checking it via WinPE, and it helped remove the cause of errors.

I'm yet to understand what is really behind that, filesystem differences and how OSs work with them, so if you have good articles, please share these.

Hello.

I just switch to Linux mint from Windows. And I found that there is some software that are preinstalled that does the same that what I would have installed myself.

For example, I use qbittorent and there is something called "Transmission" that does torrenting.
I use VLC for video playing and there is something called "Celluloid".

Are the software preinstalled on Mint generally good at what they are doing and beginner friendly? Should I check for Linux version of the software I use on Windows or rather experiment with what is here?

Thank you for your help.

I am having a problem with my Linux desktop and hoping this community can help. The hardware is only about a year old: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX. I am running KDE Plasma 6.4.4 on Wayland. My distro is Feodra 42, and I keep up with regular updates. Kernel version is 6.15.9.

Lately, I have been getting a flicker of horizontal white stripes occasionally coming across my monitors. It does not seem to matter what the program on the screen is. They're not making it impossible to use the computer, but it is very distracting when it happens. I am also worried that it may be the hardware failing, but I am hoping it's just a driver issue.

Is this a known issue with AMD drivers? Part of my concern is that last year I installed amdgpu and rcom from the AMDGPU and ROCm repos to play with AI models locally. Now I am wondering if that is messing with my video drivers. How can I tell which ones are being used? If I want to go back to the stock drivers, do I just uninstall the amdgpu package with dnf?

Hi, i've searched high and low for a solution to this issue and can't pin it down.

PC boots normal, i land in SDDM, i put in my passwort. screen goes black for a few seconds, and then i'm back at the login manager again. if i switch to the shell, i can login without issue and using startplasma-wayland, i get my desktop and everything is fine including video and gaming, so it's probably not nvidia-driver related.

i can't really find any issues in the logfiles, so it's probably a configuration issue. i already did a distro-sync and the system is updated fully.

has anyone a tip for me?

Version

KWin version: 6.4.2 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Qt compile version: 6.9.1 XCB compile version: 1.17.0

Operation Mode: Wayland

Build Options

KWIN_BUILD_DECORATIONS: yes KWIN_BUILD_TABBOX: yes KWIN_BUILD_ACTIVITIES: yes HAVE_X11_XCB: yes

X11

Vendor: The X.Org Foundation Vendor Release: 12401008 Protocol Version/Revision: 11/0 SHAPE: yes; Version: 0x11 RANDR: yes; Version: 0x14 Composite: yes; Version: 0x4 RENDER: yes; Version: 0xb XFIXES: yes; Version: 0x50 SYNC: yes; Version: 0x31 RES: yes; Version: 0x12

Output backend

Name: DRM Atomic Mode Setting on GPU 0: true

Compositing

Compositing is active Compositing Type: OpenGL OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 3.1.0 NVIDIA 570.169 OpenGL platform interface: EGL OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler Driver: NVIDIA Driver version: 570.169 GPU class: Unknown OpenGL version: 3.1 GLSL version: 1.40 X server version: 1.24.1 Linux kernel version: 6.15.7 Direct rendering: Requires strict binding: no Virtual Machine: no OpenGL 2 Shaders are used

I have a 144Hz ultrawide monitor, and recently I bought another little monitor for music/Discord. However, even though I'm running it on Wayland, If I try to change the framerate of the big monitor in KDE settings, it spits out an error (something about the framerate not being compatible with the driver - unfortunately I can't check it anymore) and doesn't change it. This is on Arch running the latest plasma-meta, and an AMD GPU.

I've tried looking for a solution to this problem, but practically all of them just say "use Wayland", which I already am. I found a Debian Bookworm USB I had lying around and thought I'd see if the issue persisted. It turns out that it doesn't - It works perfectly.

Does anybody have any ideas as to why this doesn't work on a newer version of Plasma?

I'm not necessarily against switching to Debian to get this working, it's just that Arch is what I'm used to.

Howdy,

I have been experiencing annoying brief skips, like on a bumped CD player, with my media players. Replaying the same song or same part of the song does not have the skips, so I don't think it's the files' fault.

Had the same problem in Elisa and VLC. I don't watch much local video, but streaming audio and video doesn't have this problem for me.

Watching the system monitor I see I have 10 Gb of free memory and only 5-10% CPU utilization.

System is Debian 12 with KDE and Xwindows. (Wayland doesn't like my Nvidia 1070)

Any suggestion for how to troubleshoot would be appreciated. I tried downloading more memory but that didn't help!

Hi all! On Win10 I used PhonerLite to connect to fritzbox SIP services. I'm looking for a sip/softphone client that lets me at minimum make and receive calls. I did some research and found the following packages in the arch repo/aur:

• linphone-desktop - marked as outdated(?), appimage version has bug reports and needs tinkering
• viber - doesn't mention SIP?
• jitsi - last package update 5 years ago?
• zoiper-bin - proprietary and not transparent on difference between free/pro
• twinkle-git - git repo down

None of them seem to be a good choice. Has anyone other recommendations but to try and run PhonerLite in wine?

Edit: Formatting

Edit2: I went with zoiper-bin in the end, and it works for calling. On every startup it has an ad for the pro version though. For anyone else who needs to open up the ports to receive calls, these are the ones you need for it to work with a fritzbox:

• 5060-5061 udp
• 30000-65535 udp and tcp

What Kernel are you guys using?

I have seen some people claiming that custom kernels like zen cachyos offer better battery life and performance.

Is it true ?

Hi,

I'm considering transitioning completely to Linux for my main workstation. However, due to the nature of my work I rely extensively on a few Autodesk products (namely AutoCAD, Revit) as well as Ms OneDrive to coordinate with clients. I did some research and these applications are not available natively and can't run through Wine. So I was thinking setting up a virtual machine with a windows image in order to run these two programs. They don't need extensive GPU. I was wondering if there are any obstacles / issues I should be aware if I chose to go this route? Thanks!